On Sunday night, the president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) criticized the WGA negotiators for walking out of the talks. Dozens more picketed outside NBC studios in Burbank, Calif. In Hollywood, California, writers marched Monday outside Paramount Pictures, carrying signs and shouting over traffic and honks from supporters. "Clearly, revenue is being created" from new media, he said, "but we are not receiving any of it." However, he said, the writers need new contracts that incorporate new media's impact. Writers are people who fear the sunlight," he added, smiling. "We'd much rather work than stand in the cold. "It's affecting us in the most visible way possible," John Oliver, a writer and correspondent for "The Daily Show," told CNN on Monday as he stood amid the pickets, who carried signs that read "On Strike" and "Pencils Down." The group had also brought a large inflatable rat, which they had tethered to metal railings set up along the street. ABC has stockpiled several new shows, could put them on in midseason if strike persists Reality shows unaffected Fox, with fewer hours to program and powerhouse "American Idol" returning in January, in best shape if strike continues, according to The Hollywood Reporter By January-February: Current prime-time shows will likely run out of fresh episodes In about one month: Daytime soap operas will go to reruns How you'll be affected- Immediately: Late-night talk shows, which depend on topical material, will go to reruns Watch "30 Rock's" Tina Fey talk about the issues » While studios have been hoarding scripts for months in anticipation of a strike, some television shows that are more topical - particularly late-night TV talk shows - are expected to immediately go to reruns. But, he stressed, "At the moment, we have no piece of the Internet at all." Watch what's at stake » "The DVD situation has always been a catastrophe," Warren Leight, the executive producer of NBC's "Law and Order: Criminal Intent," said Monday. This had been considered the major stumbling block to a deal. A last-day effort to reach a new work agreement collapsed Sunday night despite the writers conceding a demand for a doubling of how much they are paid for DVD sales. ET), is necessary to protect their members' future incomes as the shows they write are increasingly distributed over new media, primarily through Internet downloading.
The writers' union says the strike, which began at 12:01 a.m. "People get the wrong idea about how much writers make." Watch Leno back striking writers » "I support them," Leno said of the writers. If the strike continues, it could affect soap operas and prime-time television programs as well. Late-night talk show and comedy shows, including "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "The Late Show with David Letterman" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," have announced they'll air reruns Monday night and until further notice. Members of the Writers Guild of America manned picket lines Monday morning outside NBC studios at Rockefeller Plaza, carrying signs and yelling, on the first day of the Writers Guild of America's strike against studios and production companies.
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